Information

This is a tracing for an illustration commissioned to accompany the poem 'Life's Journey' by George Wither (1558-1667). Text and image were published in Rev. Robert Aris Willmott's anthology 'English Sacred Poetry' in 1862. Sandys used the traing to tranfer his finished design to the woodblock.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Frederick Sandys -

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons Ltd., Derby p.384
 
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonne
Betty Elzea 2001 Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service p.205

Provenance

Probably acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray before June 1895.

Associated people

Name Type
George Wither Verse by

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